Motion
Physics · 50 practice questions
Types of motion (translational, oscillatory, rotational, spin, random); relative motion; causes of motion and types of force (contact, field); linear motion (speed, velocity, acceleration, equations of uniformly accelerated motion, motion under gravity, distance-time and velocity-time graphs); projectiles; Newton's laws of motion (inertia, mass, force, impulse and momentum, force-time graph, conservation of linear momentum); motion in a circle (angular velocity, centripetal/centrifugal force); simple harmonic motion (period, frequency, amplitude, energy changes, forced vibration and resonance).
- Identify types of motion and solve numerical problems on collinear motion.
- Differentiate between speed, velocity and acceleration and deduce equations of uniformly accelerated motion.
- Solve problems on motion under gravity and interpret distance-time/velocity-time graphs.
- Establish expressions for range, maximum height and time of flight of projectiles.
- Solve problems involving impulse and momentum and interpret Newton's laws of motion.
- Establish expressions for angular velocity, angular acceleration and centripetal force.
- Establish the relationship between period and frequency and analyse energy changes during S.H.M.
Try a few questions
- Practice question 1
A body moving in a circle at constant speed experiences a centripetal force directed
- A.away from the centre of the circular path
- B.toward the centre of the circular path
- C.tangentially along the circular path
- D.in a fixed direction unrelated to the circle
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B. toward the centre of the circular path
Centripetal force always points inward, toward the centre, continuously changing the direction of motion.
- Practice question 2
In projectile motion, ignoring air resistance, the horizontal component of the velocity
- A.remains constant throughout the flight
- B.continuously increases throughout the flight
- C.continuously decreases throughout the flight
- D.immediately drops to zero at the highest point
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A. remains constant throughout the flight
With no horizontal force acting (ignoring air resistance), the horizontal velocity component stays unchanged.
- Practice question 3
Elastic collisions are collisions in which
- A.both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved
- B.only momentum is conserved, with kinetic energy always lost
- C.only kinetic energy is conserved, with momentum always lost
- D.neither momentum nor kinetic energy is conserved
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A. both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved
A perfectly elastic collision conserves both of these quantities throughout the interaction.
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